Pesky oil loss

I’ve been losing a quart of oil maybe every thousand miles. I’ve re-sealed my oil pan which showed signs of leaking, replaced the valve cover gasket and put RTV sin the corners specified by the service manual, but it still loses oil. Where else should I be looking? My previous P5 had more miles on the engine with zero oil leak issues whatsoever.

Check your drain plug, I know it sounds stupid but I've tried every plug and washer combo out there and my oil plug still weeps a good amount of oil. It might be a combination of a leaky plug and seized rings like mine. Try a seafoam flush and that should help a bit

I recommend that you do or have done a compression check. When blowby becomes a problem is directly related to the maintenance history of the vehicle. When I sold our 2002 Protégé, it had 13X,000 miles on it and it didn't burn any oil. I'm certain it can pass 250,000 miles without oil-burning issues if the new owner treats it the way I did.

This guy[emoji121][emoji121] the seafoam really does help, I've used it in many different vehicles from old rusty junkers to a 2017 corolla. I've noticed it isn't a permanent fix, but if you do a 1/4 can every oil change like pcb said you shouldn't have the super Smokey start up and your oil levels should even off unless you actually do have a leak.

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So I tried Liqui-Moly 2037 Engine flush, as well as a couple capfuls of ATF down the spark plug holes (warm engine day after flush). Holy shit the car starts more easily, sounds quieter, runs smoother, and most importantly, doesn*t smoke much at all, whatever is left is probably just leftover oil in the exhaust.

Huh ATF down the plug holes, I've never heard of that. Do you have some insight behind this? I'm just curious and thinking of trying it, thanks.

One of my buddies is a pro mechanic, and recommended I do it to clean out carbon deposits and get anything in the compression rings that the engine flush may not have. Also good to attack the rings from both top and bottom in this scenario I suppose. Either way, it mad an improvement in power according to my ass dyno.